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Hungary to limit PMs to eight years in office, warding off any Orbán comeback

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Péter Magyar’s draft amendment would prevent his predecessor from returning to the role
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Hungary’s new government, led by Péter Magyar, has put forward a constitutional amendment that would limit prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office, in effect barring Viktor Orbán from returning to the role.

The draft amendment was submitted on Wednesday, just over a week after the new government took office. It marked Magyar and his Tisza party’s first step in dismantling a constitution that was unilaterally rewritten and amended more than a dozen times as Orbán and his Fidesz party worked to turn Hungary into what they called a “petri dish for illiberalism”.

Source
The Guardian
Author
Ashifa Kassam

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